The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-04-16

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shall accept as sucn shall be liable to ali
penalties appertaining to bridge commits
sioners, road reviewers or apportioners OF
hands.
ARTICLE III.
Sec. /. New Roads-The Police Jury
shall order new roads to be cut out and
changes in the public roads whenever they
deem it proper and right, whenever
brought to their notice by petition or 9TH
erwise, and shall for such purposes appoint
three freeholders to locate and marx out
said new road or change in an old one; pro-
vided that old roads may be changed for
distance of one mile or less by the over
seer of such road when so ordered by the
police jury without the Intervention of the
reviewers aforesaid.
Sec. 2 All reviewers of roads shall take
and subscribe to the following oath before
entering upon the discharge Of their
duties:
PARISH OF GRANT. STATE OF LOUISIANA.
/, ..................-.d do solemnly swear Tor at
firm) that 1 will well and truly view and mark
out public road from ............ to-
to the greatest advantage as to locality for a
good road, with due consideration as to distance,
without favor or affection. malice or hatred, to
the very best OF my skill, so help me God.
Reviewer sign here)
Sworn TO and subscribed before me this
day off,. A. ID. 49,. ...-.-........-..-
Sec. 3. Reviewers of roads shall. for
thirty days before commencing their work,
give public notice by posting, at least in
three public places, as near as convenient
to said road, of the time and place of be-
ginning, and should any real owner feel
agrieved at such road crossing his prop
erty or otherwise damaging him, he shall
give notice to said reviewers in writing,
stating his grievance, and in such case it
shall be the duty of said reviewers to as
sess the damage to said real estate own
ers, and said reviewers shall make due re-
turn in writing OF all their proceedings in
locating and marking roads assessing
damages, ETC., to the police jury, or the
clerk thereof, within thirty days after
they have performed the same.
Sec. 4. No damages shall be assessed or
allowed unless the complainant shall give
notice aforesaid TO the reviewers before
by the reviewers, or within ten days after
the location is made.
Sec. ). After the report Of the reviewers
OF any new road has been made the police
jury shall appoint an overseer or overseers
he or they shall be authorized to call out
hands subject to road duty within five
miles of the same, all such hands shall be
entitled to credit for each day they work,
the same to be credited to their respective
road district; and for failure Of any hand
or hands duly summoned TO cut out new
roads, they shall be liable to fines and
penalties as ordinary road hands, and the
oyerseers OF new roads shall be liable to
all the penalties and fines of overseers of
roads; and said overseer or oyerseers shall
report in writing to the police jury at its
next regular meeting after they have fin
isned opening their said new roads; and
they shall continue to perform the duties
as overseer thereof for the remainder of the
year for which they have been appointed;
and it shall be the duty of the apportioner
of hands, in the ward or district where the
new road is opened and cut out, immedi-
ately to apportion hands to keep said new
roads in order as other hands, and, on
failure to do SO, shall be liable to the PEN
alties for the non performance of their
duties as in ordinary cases of apportioDing
hands
Sec. 6. Any road hand furnishing a
pillow and team when requested by the
overseer shall be allowed one days work
for the same.
Sec. z. In case of food, hurricane, or
any other disaster the overseer shall have
the authority to summons the road hands
instanter, and any person refusing to
obey the same shall be subject to fine and
imprisonment as provided in other cases
ARTICLE ~.
Sec. ] Numbering and Districting
roads, etc.-At the annual January meet
ing of the police jury they shall appoint
an overseer to each beat or overseer's dis
trict, to serve for the entire year or until
his successor is appointed; also three road
that any overseer or road hand appor-
toner shall have the right to resign after
the lapse of the year for which he was ap-
pointed, should the police jury fail to APP
point his successor, provided that he shall
do so within thirty days after the adjourn
ment OF the January meeting of the po-
lice jury; and the police jury may, when
ever they deem it proper, appoint three
bridge commissioners for each ward in
the parish, or for each road, or for spe-
cial purpose, or bridge, said commission
ers to serve for the year or special time.
as the case may be.
ARTICLE v.
Sec. 1. Duties Of Overseers. Appor-
TONERS, etc.--It shall he the duty of all
overseers of roads to prepare written
list of the hands, legally summoned,
who fail to work, Except they have
some legal excuse) as required by law,
stating the number of days they have
failed, aud present the same to the
justice of the peace Of the ward in
which the delinquent resides, and said
magistrate shall cite said delinquent
TO appear before him as in ordinary
civil suits, aud answer why the fine
and penalty by law should not be i'm